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APOV

I heard loud thumps and a familiar groan. I ignored it and rolled over, having not slept soundly in weeks. They got louder and I continued to ignore them. But as reality and realization hit me, it was too late. I flew out of Chloe's window, sleep still fogging my eyes. I saw a flash of blonde curly hair being roughly stuffed inside a car.

No!

"Chloe!" I screamed, sprinting after her.

"Go, go, go!" I heard a man shout. The door slammed closed, and the tires screeched against the pavement. And just like that-the girl I was really starting to fall in love with vanished down the street.

"Jasmine!" I burst through my apartment door, breathing heavily. "Jasmine!" I screamed again, ripping my jacket off.

"What is it? What's wrong?" she appeared from her room. She looked into my eyes and instantly knew something was wrong. I swallowed thickly and just looked at her, shaking my head.

She seemed to understand.

"What happened. Alek, where is Chloe?" She came closer, her voice desperate. She didn't want to believe it either.

"They took her." I managed to get out.

"Damn it!" She shrieked, whipping out her phone to call Valentina. "Call for back-up, and get the weapons ready. Try to remember the license plate number and pull out the list of possible Order locations." Her inner Pride leader came out. I hurried myself on my tasks, needing the most distraction I could get.

But the only thing I could think was, "This is all my fault."

CPOV

I woke up in a dark room, on the ground. It was freezing, and the metal chains around my wrists and ankles weren't helping. My body shook violently from the cold, and I sat up and pulled my knees to my chest for even the slightest chance of possible body heat. My head was pounding, my body ached, and there was a large bloody gash on my leg. My throat was raw and my nose was running, a sign that I was getting sick.

Well, this was fun.

Not. To sum it all up, I was pretty miserable. The door creaked open loudly, and the sudden light surprised me. It was gone as soon as the door slammed shut.

"Well guess who finally woke up from their cat nap." a man sneered at me, walking over and pulling me up by my hair. I stayed silent, glaring, trying not to show how much pain I was in.

"My name is Tony. I guess since I'm going to be taking most of your lives, we should get to know each other. The boss wants to take your last life himself, of course." He flung me back down to the ground and stepped on my leg, twisting it with his feet. My leg snapped.

My strong facade cracked-I screamed in agony, tears squeezing out of my eyes.

"Awwh, kitty isn't so strong now, is she?" he grunted, kicking my side. My vision got foggy, and my breathing became even more labored. He delivered more and more blows to my body, and I just wanted it to be over.

I mean, I was a cutter. I like small pain, not... this. I always scoffed at the people in stories or movies who said, "I just want my pain to be over."

I always thought that you could pull through the pain, everything good in life shining through and willing you to survive. But I realize now that sometimes you're too weak-sometimes you just have to give up.

The last thought I had before he delivered the fatal blow to my head was, "Where was Alek? He promised me he would protect me, but I'm going to die again."

APOV

Valentina rushed home from her meeting immediately, bringing thirteen Mai hunters with her. Jasmine and I managed to get seven, so we had twenty in all. I couldn't remember the license plate number-I was too angry and upset to think straight at the time. I still am. And I will be until we get Chloe back.

Images of her lying crumpled on the floor, covered in blood made their way into my head, and I did the thing I always did when I was extremely upset-I punched something. It wasn't an ancient artifact, or anything. Just a wall.

I just didn't like the way Chloe made me feel. Emotions that I have never felt before crashed through my body so strongly I was shaking. I felt...afraid. I felt like I did when I was little and my parents abandoned me. I felt afraid and lonely and terrifyingly angry.

"Alek, you need to calm down. We are going to get her back, safe and sound." Jasmine reassured me, changed from her pajamas to a tank top, jeans, and combat boots. But she didn't fool me. Five minutes ago I saw her wipe tears from her cheeks with shaking hands.

"She's right. If you lose your head when we're in, it could cost Chloe even more lives. Stay. Focused." Valentina said, slipping a gun into a pocket in her leather jacket. Jasmine and I weren't trusted with guns yet, so all we had to our advantage were our claws and our pure love for Chloe.

One of the Mai hunters had actually placed a tiny tracker in Chloe's hair while she was sleeping while they were on protector duty. Normally I would be slightly weirded out, but now I was just straight-out grateful. It was the kind that you attached to a single strand of hair, it was that small. It was unnoticeable and couldn't be washed out. She was about twenty five miles away, in a warehouse.

"Let's get going."

Jasmine and I were riding our motorcycles, and everyone else crammed into four cars. We swerved through traffic and ran red lights, desperate to get to Chloe before she lost her last life.

We got there in about thirty five minutes, and I ripped my helmet off, tossing it on my motorcycle, which was thrown to the side.

"Ready?" I asked, impatient.

"Let's go." They nodded. We slipped in quietly through a window, landing stealthily on our feet. It was freezing in here, and there were many doors. The man holding the tracking device led us through a maze of tall crates, which held apparently dangerous stuff, since there were giant red skulls painted onto them. It's been fifteen minutes of walking, and I snapped.

"Well? Where is she?" I exclaimed.

"In this room, actually." He pointed to door half-hidden behind a crate. And, right on time, I heard her familiar scream of pain. We looked at each other, and abandoned all hopes of being quiet any longer. Jasmine kicked the door down, and that was when I saw Chloe take yet another last breath.

Hi! I actually wrote a new 9LOCK fanfiction, called I'm Only Me When I'm With You. I would really love it if you checked it out! It's where Chloe and Alek are the best of friends, and Brian comes to town. He gets in the way of their friendship, but might make them realize that they're something a little more than friends?

So yea. I would really appreciate it if you checked that out. There are two chapters out already. Thank you so much![: Please review!